The Doges Palace is a gothic palace in Venice. In Italian it is called the Palazzo Ducale di Venezia. The palace was the residence of the Doge Its two most visible facades look of Venice. towards the Venetian Lagoon and St Marks current or rather the Piazzetta. Square palace was largely The constructed from 1309 to 1424 designed perhaps by Filippo Calendario. It replaced earlier fortified buildings of which relatively little is known. Giovanni and Bartolomeo Bon created the Porta della Carta in 1442 a